Independent Black

Famous quotes containing the words independent and/or black:

    So far as I am individually concerned, & independent of my pocket, it is my earnest desire to write those sort of books which are said to “fail.”
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    ... black women have always found that in the social order of things we’re the least likely to be believed—by anyone.
    Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)